Why am I doing a post about the Crowded House reuniting for a tour?  Maybe it was talking about stirrup pants in that fashion post.  And I also kinda like them.  Do you have a problem with that?

I wasn’t really paying attention when they broke up so I am going to have a quick peek and see what happened…

Ok, it was pretty boring.  They did do a final concert with proceeds going to a Children’s Hospital in 1996.  Now they are back, maybe ten or eleven years is a good rest.

This is not a real roadside attraction.  It is from a sitcom.  There is a double entendre at play.

The double entendre is a dying artform in this age where people just say the obscene thing straight out.  I just saw a hip hop video on youtube that went even beyond what I have come to expect.  I hear that late night music video shows on some cable stations are almost indistiguishable from pornography now.  Justin Timberlake’s bit on SNL is another example of a performer coming right out and saying it.

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A couple of years ago I was joining dozens and dozens of forums of all descriptions as research for a business idea that never panned out. You know where I found some of the most welcoming people? Auto Forums, that’s where.

Not only are they generally positive friendly places, they are also usually filled with a lot of helpful and knowledgeable people. This post is being made to help get the word out about a new forum. The Nissan Skyline Forums are brand new. If you join a forum when it is new it’s almost like you have automatic seniority.

I just did a quick bit of research. This sports coupe has never before been marketed in America, and was a sought after ‘grey market’ car. Cool.

I’m starting a technology related blog and I think there is going to be a bit of spill-over onto this blog. Basically when I think a piece of technology is so neat that I want as many people as possible to see it. I want to have the above set-up. It has a high quality setting that would probably be great for recording a soundtrack to go with my low quality videos.

Another accessory that I saw recently was a device to broadcast your Ipod tracks onto your car radio. I was thinking if you were in heavy slow traffic, you could get the cars on all sides of you to tune in to your Ipod. Just keep an 8 1/2 x 14 sheet of paper with the fm frequency written on it in your glove compartment.

Brand name luxury items are something you should never buy online. Rolex, Prada, Gucci etc.

Fake brand name items account for 13% of all online purchases. Many luxury brands don’t even allow online transactions. Breitling and Corum’s site has this warning — genuine products are not sold on the Internet. What you’re getting from sites like Overstock.com and SmartBargains are grey-market products that are missing key components like a serial number or the manufacturer’s warranty. Without those, the brand will refuse to repair or service your purchase.

Source…

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I have decided to start yet another regular feature. Well, two features actually. I am going to feature a product that is by it’s nature suited to online shopping and in the following article I will feature something that is, in my opinion, an unsuitable thing to be shopping for online.

Once you have seen an optician and recieved a prescription, it makes a lot of sense to order contact lenses online. They are going to be exactly the same product that you would get at a retail outlet and it will cost you less. Shipping such a small well packaged item is practical. Discount Contact Lenses is an established company with over 10 years of excellent customer service. I was just browsing through their feedback on BizRate. They seem to meet just about everyone’s expectations.

The only two complaints that I read were from customers outside of the United States. I used to work in the same room as a busy shipping department and I got to hear about all the typical best and worst cases for long distance international shipments. Discount Contact Lenses says to expect an overseas shipment to take between 14 and 21 days. My company shipped a box to Antarctica without any difficulty and we had stuff get stuck in customs in Montreal for 14 days because of a strike.

But back to the product. You can get lenses from any of the major manufacturers and they will be to the exact prescription that your doctor gave you. For example you can get Acuvue 2 for $15.95 per box.

I just read a great newspaper column by Leah McLaren that is basically telling all the slacker generation Dads that despite what they think, their parenthood is not cool and ironic.

What interests me is that so much of the anecdotal stuff about these guys is disturbingly familiar. I didn’t dress my two-year old up in a Ramones t-shirt, but I did dance around the kitchen to I Wanna be Sedated with one of my babies more than once. The guitar break is great for spinning.

I tried JagerMeister a few times when it was being promoted in alternative bars in the 90’s. I may have bought about 2 bottles of it to use as an apéritif at home. I basically turned away from it as it became a cliché. Also, with the information about red wine being a good preventative for heart disease, we try to have a dose of it daily and generally avoid other alcoholic drinks.

I have eclectic tastes in music. This is something in my nature, its not something I do so I can say “I have eclectic tastes in music.” I had mostly given up trying to inflict my tastes on my kids and making judgements about their taste, when I picked them up from a relatives house and found out that somebody had given them the Hanson CD. Not Beck Hanson (their older brother?)…Hanson. I gritted my teeth. My daughter and I both like Death Cab for Cutie, and Martin Tielli, that’s enough. I had a children’s book/cd that Martin had illustrated, and I had it in my pocket one night when I went to see his band. I sat with the band in a basement bar while he signed it for my daughters. I think I was cringing a bit because that was the closest I ever got to the Cool Dad cliché.

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There are a handful of pop songs out there that mention Mortgage Rates as something that preoccupies the minds of the old and uncool. I’m in that overlap group of people who listen to those songs as opposed to my Lawrence Welk 78’s yet still find myself having circular, stress-filled internal dialogues about mortgage rates.

It used to be that a Mortgage Calculator was only available as a function on a high end Hewlett Packard calculator or a feature of a spreadsheet program. Now there are good web-based mortgage calculators, like the one that you will find at PersonalHomeLoanMortgages.com. These calculators can help you figure stuff out fast and stop the swirling noises in your head.

Dancing with the Stars was a surprise hit with American viewers. It struck me this morning that the success of that format must be spawning many imitators that are shaping up behind the scenes that they will be unleashed on an unsuspecting television audience in the coming months.

I shared some hilarious Sunday morning pillow talk about this…and I am not going to repeat it because it consists almost entirely of inside jokes and obscenity.

Armed and Famous, a show I reviewed earlier, is essentially Law Enforcement with the Stars.

What about Drawing Cartoon Pictures of Tourists For Money with the Stars?

Um…Acting with the Stars…You could pair people like Keanu Reeves and William Shatner and Pamela Anderson with professional actors. Maybe they could be guests on a soap opera and viewers would decide who was more convincing.

DUI with the Stars, on a closed track with fireproof suits, safety harnesses and helmets, we have to be responsible.

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Bedroom furniture is important to your quality of life. I spent six months working everyday in my bedroom. I am glad that I have an actual office now, but I think having a bedroom that had matched, tasteful wooden furniture kept me sane. I think you should avoid having your bedroom as your workplace, it makes it harder to leave work behind at bedtime.

A bedroom is more than just a room with a bed. Most of us have a lot of our personal wardrobe and grooming items stored in out bedroom. Many of us watch television in our bedroom. That is another thing I would not recommend. There was a guy on television ( I think I saw this while I was in bed ) who said he knew he was getting old when his wife asked him if he wanted to have sex or watch Law and Order and he replied “Well…it’s a new one…”

Something I just learned about on the site for At Great Priced Furniture, North Carolina’s largest online retailer of quality bedroom furniture is that California King Size is the latest trend in beds. These beds are 72 inches wide and 84 inches deep. I think a longer bed is a great idea.